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Tropical Architecture Bureau blends “old-world charm with the modern” for Keralan home

November 11, 2024 Jon Astbury 0

Rounded layers of smooth cement plaster take cues from traditional stone-carved architecture at TropiBox, a home in Kerala, India, designed by local studio Tropical Architecture Bureau. Located in the city of Kochi, TropiBox is informed by the architecture of tropical modernism – a style developed in the late 1940s as a blending of European modernism

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Jason Good Architecture tops London home with patinated copper “top hat”

November 10, 2024 Jon Astbury 0

A roof of dark patinated copper distinguishes this house in Wimbledon Village, London, designed by local architecture studio Jason Good Architecture. Jason Good Architecture drew on the leafy neighbourhood’s combination of Arts and Crafts-style architecture and more modern houses for the two-bedroom dwelling, which replaces an existing 1980s cottage. “We aimed to design a house

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Dílna houses Brno art studios within a stack of white cubes

November 9, 2024 Jon Astbury 0

Local architecture studio Dílna has extended the art department at Masaryk University in Brno, Czech Republic, creating a minimalist stack of studios that were designed to look “more like a modern art gallery than a traditional educational facility”. Designed for the university’s Faculty of Education, the 300-square-metre building adds new workshop and studio facilities directly

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Mark Jeavons and Ohlo Studio restore 1970s home in Australia

November 8, 2024 Jon Astbury 0

Australian architect Mark Jeavons worked with interior design practice Ohlo Studio to restore Tomich House, a heritage-listed 1970s house in City Beach, Perth. Originally designed by brutalist Bulgarian architect Iwan Iwanoff in 1971, the home features a landscaped garden and sculptural curved walls built from white-painted concrete blocks. Tomich House had recently been acquired by

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Ingenhoven Associates drapes trailing plants over old Stuttgart shopping centre

November 7, 2024 Jon Astbury 0

German studio Ingenhoven Associates has redesigned Calwer Passage, a former shopping centre and office block in Stuttgart, adding a “natural curtain” of trailing plants to its facade. The scheme, which has been shortlisted in the mixed-use project category of Dezeen Awards 2024, involved the reconstruction and extension of the 1970s shopping arcade and office block

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“Curtain-like” brick facade fronts W-Mission office in Seoul

November 4, 2024 Jon Astbury 0

A rippling brick facade fronts the headquarters of textile manufacturer W-Mission in Seoul, designed by architecture studios Behet Bondzio Lin Architekten and BCHO Architects. Located in the Seongsu-dong neighbourhood, the 9,500-square-metre building combines seven floors of offices with three storeys of public areas including a cafe, shop and exhibition and workshop spaces. It is marked

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Open-air museum “preserves the memory” of 17th-century Turkish fortress

November 1, 2024 Jon Astbury 0

Turkish studio KOOP Architects has revitalised the 17th-century Ottoman Seddülbahir Fortress on the Gallipoli peninsula, creating an outline in timber that suggests how its stone ruins would have previously looked. Located in the village of Sedd el Bahr at the tip of the Gallipoli Peninsula, the Seddülbahir Fortress was originally constructed in 1656 and suffered

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ADEPT and LYTT Architecture elevate lookouts within Amager Nature Park

October 30, 2024 Jon Astbury 0

A series of viewpoints clad in charred-timber shingles have been perched throughout the largest nature park in Copenhagen by Danish studios LYTT Architecture and ADEPT. Located along a stretch of coastline east of the capital city, the 35-square-kilometre Amager Nature Park contains a mix of wetlands, marshes and areas of forest. LYTT Architecture and ADEPT

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MJMA Architecture & Design marries wood and mesh for Canadian sports centre

October 29, 2024 Jon Astbury 0

Timber columns and a mesh facade are intended to emulate “a screen of trees” at this sports centre in Canada by Toronto studio MJMA Architecture & Design. Named the Churchill Meadows Community Centre and Sports Park, the project in Mississauga involved the conversion of a 20-hectare agricultural field into parkland. It is shortlisted in the

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IARA piggybacks stone aqueduct with sheltered timber bridge in China

October 27, 2024 Jon Astbury 0

Architecture studio IARA has reinvigorated an abandoned aqueduct in Huangshan, China, by attaching a sheltered timber bridge on top of its stone structure. Named FW JI Covered Bridge on Aqueduct, the project in Fengwu Village is shortlisted in the infrastructure and transport project category of Dezeen Awards 2024. The narrow stone aqueduct, which crosses over

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